Pastel and Pencil
My art reflects a personal journey in pencil and pastel from my boyhood home in Yorkshire to the present day on the Oregon coast. I have been drawn to pencil since my art school days, loving the way pencil reduces the subject to shape and light which color often masks. I hope my love of my adopted home, its beautiful farmland and forests, can be seen in the way I express it on paper.
I served for 15 years as an Art Director with Leo Burnet Advertising in London. For the past 25 years, I have also served as owner of Storyboards Inc., the largest storyboard representation company on the West Coast, representing over 50 extremely talented artists. After selling my company I wanted to explore the challenge of pastels, and now I am reveling in a whole new world of color